How do you use Highway in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like road or route, plus the exact meaning.
Highway in a sentence
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Highway meaning
- A main public road, especially a multi-lane, high-speed thoroughfare.
- Any public road.
- A way; a path that leads to a certain destiny.
Using Highway
- The main meaning on this page is: A main public road, especially a multi-lane, high-speed thoroughfare. | Any public road. | A way; a path that leads to a certain destiny.
- Useful related words include: main road, road, route.
- In the example corpus, highway often appears in combinations such as: the highway, highway and, on highway.
Example sentences (20)
Highway 3 joins Lethbridge to Fort Macleod and links Highway 4 to Highway 2. Highway 2 travels northward through Fort Macleod, Calgary, Red Deer, and Edmonton.
The victim told police both he and a black Hyundai sedan exited Highway 99 on the Steveston Highway off-ramp on the evening of Dec. 27, and continued westbound on the Steveston Highway.
Water filled Highway 33 between Lerdo Highway and Highway 46 and caused its closure, Lukens noted.
Improvements to the intersection of Highway 41, U.S. Highway 17 and Dingle Road will include modifications to the traffic signal timing and improvements to the slip ramp that directs right-turning traffic onto U.S. Highway 17.
In 1912, the road became part of a state highway known as Trunk Highway No. 30 or Trunk Highway No. 59.
Another important project was securing $3.6 million to upgrade and repair Park Avenue in Drew, improvements to Highway 8 west in Cleveland, Highway 14 in Sharkey County and Highway 552 in Claiborne County at Alcorn State University.
Though theories surrounding the inspiration for the band’s iconic Highway to Hell song abound, the caller responsible for the rumour known only as “Highway to Hell” himself said promoters suggested it was named after Canning Highway.
He explained that the Interstate Highway System was built with funds authorized by the Federal Highway Act of 1956 (National Interstate and Defense Highways Act) and suggests transferring Defense Department funds to the Highway Trust Fund.
Here in Oregon we have a highway that by the normal rules of designating numbers should have been highway 69. They were afraid people would steal the signs, so it became highway 569.
However, to date only two highways have been constructed: Kashmir Highway (the former Murree Highway) and Islamabad Highway.
Roads and highways were managed by provincial and municipal authorities until construction of the Northwest Highway System (the Alaska Highway ) and the Trans-Canada Highway project initiation.
A right-hand turning lane at the Olympic Highway and Dunns Road intersection is currently being constructed, with one lane of the highway closed and traffic control in place 24/7.
A section of Highway 5 in Chanhassen, Minnesota, will soon be designated the Prince Rogers Nelson Memorial Highway.
As for the widening, at present, the state highway is not evenly wide, somewhere the highway being four meters wide, while at some points 4.5 metres wide.
California Highway Patrol temporarily closed Highway 101 in both directions by Oyster Point due to “major flooding” caused by non-stop rainfall and high tides.
Dockside Entertainment, the entertainment facility project to be completed in the former Leevers Foods South building at the intersection of US Highway 2 and ND Highway 59/20, is begun.
Indiana and Texas are the first two states to implement the new technology in highway paving projects but more than half U.S. states have signed up to participate in a Federal Highway Administration pooled fund study to try the sensors out.
Miles said the focus is on what he defined as the four main corridors of the city: Highway 378, Highway 1, Platt Springs Road and Airport Boulevard.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz used purple ink to sign the bill that renamed Minnesota Highway 5 to Prince Rogers Nelson Memorial Highway.
Operational Updates: Fire activity near Montana Highway 28 mitigated enough for officials to reopen the highway.
Common combinations with highway
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the highway 55×
- highway and 46×
- on highway 35×
- of highway 31×
- highway in 25×
- highway patrol 23×
- highway to 19×
- and highway 19×
- state highway 18×
- to highway 14×